what's next for bradley manning a u.s. judge will decide on how much time the whistleblower will spend behind bars despite a strong army of those who say he should never have been tried in the first place. britain brings to bear its prodigious terror powers to quash the debate on surveillance by targeting publications journalists and even their spouses but will it work here on r t we report on the media's reaction. to the political instability in egypt forces international investors to pull out leaving the country struggling not only for stability but also for economic survival.

it is a busy day for news here on r.t. today i rule received a live in moscow it's good to have you with us for the program a hero to some a traitor to others private bradley manning we'll hear his fate on wednesday when a u.s. judge decides what sentence he deserves for spilling hordes of secret government data to wiki leaks now there's no doubt he'll be locked up the key question though is for how long details now from liz while she reports from just outside the courthouse in maryland. well the judge is now deliberating bradley manning subtends the judge colonel to new zealand says she'll deliver the sentence wednesday morning manning faces a maximum of ninety years after he was found guilty of most of the charges against him including aspin knowledge in the closing arguments of the sentencing hearing the prosecution requested that manning spend no less than sixty years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti secrecy website

wiki leaks they say in doing so manning betrayed the trust of the united states and of his fellow soldiers but national security at risk and her diplomatic relationships that offends on the other hand urged the judge to be lenient they did not require an exact number of years but manning's attorney david coombs asked the judge to take several factors into consideration in order to give manning a fair sentence these factors include manning is a young age who was twenty one years old at the time that he was deployed in iraq manning's troubled mental state was highlighted during the sentencing phase military mental health professionals testified that manning suffered from anxiety and a gender identity crisis who has also said manning had good intentions when he leaked u.s. secrets that he. i think he could spark a national debate possibly bring an end to the wars in iraq and afghanistan colmes

asked the judge to allow manning a chance. at life and becoming a productive member of society the judge is now and deliberations. marilyn liz wall. and wall of bradley manning could become america's first leaker languishing behind bars for the rest of his life the obama administration has a history though of silencing whistleblowers. brings us more into exactly what he did to get what's coming to. bradley manning was found guilty of espionage for leaking government secrets but let's take a closer look at how exactly this verdict breaks down now the first charge against him was comes after the u.s. uniform code of military justice under article ninety two of the five charges against a man was found guilty of storing classified information transferring data onto his personal computer while he was based in a wrong now manning was also found guilty of two charges under the computer fraud

and abuse act of article one hundred thirty four but those violations brought to light what's been known as cable gate where there are two hundred fifty thousand cables between state department officials and diplomats throughout the world now they date back from one nine hundred sixty six all the way up to twenty ten now the army private was also found guilty of seven out of eight espionage charges but those violations brought to light hundreds of thousands of classified military longest related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan now they also included a shocking video of a u.s. army helicopter gunning down a group of civilians in baghdad including two new staff now secret files on but one tunnel bay detainees that revealed interrogation techniques as well as indefinite detentions and the video of the faroe massacre in which scores of afghan civilians mostly women and children were killed in an airstrike and of course much much more now bradley manning that may have broken the law. all of his supporters say that his actions shed much needed light on flawed or u.s. diplomatic military and intelligence operations and while manning may have been

responsible for the biggest leak in u.s. history he's not the first nor the last american to blow the whistle on the government now more than four decades ago a former military analyst by the name of daniel ellsberg gave confidential documents about the vietnam war to the new york times and the washington post now he became the very first person to be prosecuted under the espionage act and the so-called pentagon papers revealed that the u.s. government had been drastically expanding military operations in vietnam and that four successive administrations openly lying to the public about their true intentions meanwhile a former senior executive at the n.s.a. thomas drake he was charged with violating the espionage act two when he lead classified documents to the baltimore sun now he claims that if the n.s.a. use their resources more effectively it could have prevented the september eleventh terrorist attacks that have killed thousands of americans and of course triggered the subsequent invasions of of gamma stan and iraq now moving on to former cia

official john kiriakou who faced up to thirty eight years in prison after he was charged by the government for leaking classified info to the press and he was the very first cia official to publicly confirm and detail the bush administration's use of waterboarding and while the charges against him filed under the espionage act were drawn up just part of a deal he is currently serving two and a half years in jail for his actions now the the us administration of barack obama has prosecuted more government officials for alleged leaks under the world war one era espionage act than all of his predecessors combined but he has this has raised concerns that future whistleblowers of government fraud and abuse are likely to think twice before speaking out this week after not reporting in moscow. so have broadly about exactions done much harm to u.s. security. that's according to wiki leaks activist and blogger clocks tick. barack

obama for example campaigned in two thousand and a on the promise to protect whistleblowers and we've seen the complete reverse actually we've seen obama go after eight whistleblowers and and so i think what will really have a big impact on the future chances of clemency or a pardon would be winning the nobel peace prize i think it's very important that those who actually decide on the nobel peace prize winner take into account that over one hundred thousand people have signed the petition for bradley manning in the sentencing hearing we learned that there was no harm done by these leaks no one was killed no one was wounded several activists had to be moved around but that was about it and for now it's almost fifty fifty when it comes to public opinion manning's disclosures. went out into the streets of the big apple to watch the people there whether they give the thumbs up or the thumbs down when it comes to

manning's whistle blowing. it is very important what he did is really important and i don't think he should be punished for doing something that's very american really i was on as trial but he you know what he did was against the law he's a young guy and he's got his whole life ahead of him it's not like a serious thing where you deserve so much jail time seems harsh sixty years or so years a long time i mean he obviously had his reasons for doing what he's doing and the government's. reasons for doing what they're doing mostly just to i guess protect themselves protect the state's i think he's guilty i think he should go to prison not for sixty years but he should go to prison you know the sticky situation but sixty years sounds a little harsh i mean you have people who have committed worse crimes against other people being sentenced to last sound money i mean i would definitely have mixed feelings as well because i see the importance of national security. at the same

time revealing work crimes always an important thing also for. just generally a human rights so i'm really kind of torn on the issue he's not a threat to people i think he is not going to go and stab somebody hopefully but i think he could be put to work for communities rather than putting people in prison it's ridiculous. so if you missed anything on this ongoing story just check it out at the office he talked calm round the clock internet team has been keeping a very close watch on manning's court proceedings the whole saugor in fact all the latest opinions and images for you and analysis online right now. for me this is part of the trial persian it is time. for. him. he was.

part of ten minutes past the hour moscow time from thwarting. any spies to fighting terror the british government is having a little trouble justifying its efforts to stamp out the surveillance debate but the lengths it's going to work causing an outcry of journalists threatening legal action the rights groups are incensed and even they usually don't solve public is taking notice. investigates. you've had your fun now with starting to return of the documents so the unnamed government official to the newspaper editor it could be the stuff of movies only it isn't we were faced effectively with an ultimatum from the british government that if we didn't hand back the material or destroy it they would move to law in recent months the guardian newspaper has come to be known as the paper that's been exposing secret material from a trove of information passed on to wit by former contractor of the national security agency edward snowden but in recent days the editor of the newspapers also publicized what god on

a behind closed doors here how security officials had ended up in the basement of their offices overseeing the destruction of hard drives of computers which contained the very information the paper's been exposing a bizarre turn of events salaries major says that came all the way up from the prime minister's office once it was obvious that they would be going to law. i would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting and i was happy to destroy it because it was not going to inhibit our reporting we would simply. not from london a twenty first century possibility in a highly digital and connected world the revelation by rusbridger it came just a day after the detention of david muir and part of the guardian journalist and glenn greenwald journalist who had broken the story of snowden's leaks and the same materials around it was obtained under the u.k. still is an act and was held in question flew nine hours at heathrow airport it

caused an outcry among politicians and and journalists. even david anderson the independent review or of terrorism laws who demanded an explanation prompting the u.k. home office to go on the offensive the government and the police have a duty to protect the public and our national security those who oppose this sort of action need to think about what's their condoning if they want to protect the public to tell the public what it is they're protecting them from a generalized statement about terrorism in general doesn't really do the trick you've got to be able to say well the information he's got would endangered the public for the following reasons you've got to have reasons for it no such reasons have been advanced and we ran this new tension as well as the destruction of computers in the guardian's basement have one of britain's most respected newspapers in the spotlight the story teller has become this story this is a very damaging moment actually for britain's reputation for free speech is being laid bare the way that the british state is very prepared to use terrorism

legislation to use accusations of terrorism in order to shut down what looks to be journalistic practice good healthy investigative journalism with some of pointed to be noticeably lackluster response from the country's other newspapers following rust merges revelations especially considering that press freedom appears to be at stake the business of reporting securely and having confidential sources is becoming difficult in these documents there is the stated ambition to scoop up everything and store it all to master the internet this is the language that's being used internally does or celia r.t. london and the guardian are saying that the destruction of its computers will not achieve anything as it will continue its coverage of surveillance from abroad german from the stop the war coalition she points out the inherent irony in the situation. this is hardly our role make isn't it. a british newspaper has to report

from new york which does have very high levels of surveillance but i think it also tells you about the level of spy lives in britain about. the various violence that and many people are extremely worried in this country that this violence is now a very serious part of government policy it's not about keeping us safe it's about making sure that they know everything they want to know about individuals who are not white challenger and we have to really reject this and we have to oppose it in every way that we can and a wiki leaks spokesperson kristen cranston told us here at odds here that his organization warned years ago that of course it would be the journalists who be next in the firing. you have been warning about this for years let me remind you that three years ago when we can under massive attack even under dress threats and the journalist in the mainstream media did not come to our defense or even work directly against us we said you should to think twice because you are next and are

sick seche what has happened in the escalation in the war on journalists and we see the phone records of a.p. journalists in the states being seized we see an attempt to brand in the us journalists who were working with blowers us coconspirators who could be prosecuted and now we see this recent develop in the u.k. this is part of an escalation against the freedom of the press and we were about to say years ago. so just how much of the net is being watched by the n.s.a. may have previously been underestimated and the report says the government's powers to intercept communications including those of americans may be far more sweeping than previously thought in fact speaking to r.t. ecuador's president rafael correia told us that instead of ending the surveillance of its own people the west spends all of its energy hunting down the supporters of whistleblowers he didn't even get that what is happening in europe is simply

terrible we're talking about irresponsible behavior on the part of various governments such as that of the united states surveillance cannot be tolerated instead of protecting their people who are being spied upon wholesale they did not yet space to prison evo morales it's scandalous fortunately the ensuing reaction from latin america was both strong and just we did not want it to happen but we reacted accordingly instead of defending the rights of their own people is that of rejecting surveillance they prosecute those suspected of helping snowden on something must change in the world but it's good to have you with us on the program today still to come for ya. bush for green. i'll be having a look at how european cannabis campaign is have staged a horticultural invasion of one german tao. lots of news to come your way in just a moment here on r.t. hope you can stay with us. but

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on the old picture of today's leaves my own designs from around the globe. promptly. to get me. the world's top headlines live from moscow its arts here with me rory sushi a nobel peace prize laureate and egypt's vice president mohamed el baradei one i'll stand trial for breach of trust. the interim government over the violent dispersals of protests just last week that follows the arrests of several senior muslim brotherhood figures including the group spiritual leader mohamed badie and all this comes while the country plunges deeper into an economic abyss as artie's paula severe reports. this is the place where egypt's creative minds meet and mingle for more than one hundred years they've congregated here cleaning inspiration from the

famous faces watching down on them but the state imposed daily curfew has severely restricted the free flow of thought it strutting the they use over the hours and you feel that you are surrounded by by the curfew government offices now closer to thirty in the afternoon businesses close the doors an hour later the roads are clogged with traffic so if you want to get home before seven at night one of the irony is that now with the state of emergency there is no one on the streets at night so for the first time in weeks face no shortage of fuel but there is an emerging shortage in foreign investment with some of the biggest international companies shutting down their operations and leaving thousands of egyptians without jobs electrolux is about to cut seven thousand employees and shell our city shut up shop but even those who until a few weeks ago were in power don't blame foreign investors for pulling out. a year

what the initial it's a direct result of instability and insecurity because of the depression investors are not feeling safe international community needs an atmosphere of freedom and encouragement and i do. the government now after the coup an offer that but many like amir selim are suspicious of the withdrawal of western multinationals this leading egyptian lawyer believes his country is ultimately better off without them this is the plan to be followed by the multinational companies committed and the related to the united states is a raid. map of roads in this region that's why if the eve for they will leave for a very temporary bye why because they have interests here the cannot leave it the need us. maybe we don't need them but the fact is that the country

is in economic freefall the value of the egyptian pound has plummeted to record lows and foreign currency reserves have dropped to less than half what they were in mubarak's time but right now the government is too busy preventing the country from descending into a civil war economics to top its list of priorities the main issue that we are facing the budget deficit we have huge for the differences because the revenue or the tax revenue is lower than where it should have been ordered the countries revenues are less high cost because. salaries have been raised for the police. raise the. income so the main issue that we're facing in egypt is the budget deficit but for the few hours a day that the curfew is not in place is egypt's think is can do nothing but watch and listen as they observe the chaos that is sadly become modern day egypt poilus the r.t. kyra. and r.t. has spoken to the advisor to egypt's interim president his view on where the

current turmoil is going to take the country he claims there was just a matter of time before society there rejects the idea still being promoted by the muslim brotherhood. and when the muslim brotherhood exists as an idea as a group and as an organization i believe such clandestine organizations can't exist in the twenty first century in the same shape they were created one hundred years ago such organizations are the products of their era they are based on ideas that don't exist anymore the social ideology of the past this means that such organizer . nations the muslim brotherhood included have lost their place among humanity the muslim brotherhood has lost a lot and has put itself in a position i had warned about in the past this happened because this movement went from a legal struggle against the state to an open confrontation with the whole of society those who opposed to society get rejected by it sooner or later. i will

get to the aussie wild up there shortly for now though there was a state of emergency in russia's far east as waters swamp a once flourishing region on our website right now check out the footage of the worst flood to hit the area in more than a century check out the devastation there is literally stretching as far as the eye can see. and desperate times call for desperate measures and examine drone hunting could become a new challenge for iranian pupils as the country's military hopes to bring a new security and proving subject straight into the school curriculum. right to see. first street. and i think your. orders there. in.

the in the. eye thanks for joining us here on the program approach cannabis campaign is in one german town of found an unorthodox way to go green arguing that pot can actually be much less harmful than tobacco and alcohol they have literally planted seeds all over town. of our now reports. it's high time for a change in the law say activists in the university town that can seen a novel form of protests springing up as around a thousand marijuana plants were added to the leaf city this autonomous group wanted to raise awareness and to get publicity for their cause which was legalization of marijuana and they just wanted people to stumble over the plants was just something that you would find on your way to work or on your way across town despite an active program of weeding out the weed by authorities it isn't hard

to find a spot where the surreptitious seeds have sprouted. in fact what we can find here is that very plant and you can find them in all sorts of random places like this one those behind the planting who call themselves a few autonomous flower children also held an online photo contest to gather pictures of the best birds which the police told me is very handy when it comes to tracking down the pesky plants and we first got wind of it when someone saw this online contest this is a very big and a very green city the best way for us to find them was to look for landmarks in the picture. many have of this stunt is a bit of student high jinks towards the end of the academic year however this could be the start of something far bigger say those in the legal profession i think that this. is an act of civil disobedience should be a starting point for

a much wider discussion on legalizing all kinds of drugs are not doing that i'm not . made up my mind to it but we should have this discussion supporters of the activists believe that used responsibly cannabis could be far less dangerous than things like alcohol and tobacco many people think that you can actually consume it . so billy. and as soon as you have that responsible approach towards consumption then it should not be a problem to legalize that supplying the drug carries a prison sentence in germany so far no one connected with the raising of the crop has faced any legal action due to the your ability of the plant meaning it can grow just about anywhere don't expect these pots pioneers to give up their campaign any time soon. artie get in germany are staying in germany as we head into the aussie world update where immigration tensions have now turned into street violence left

wing anti fascist activists clashing with police in berlin as the crowd protested against the national democratic party members of the n.d.p. recently stage their own rally outside an accommodation block for asylum seekers they oppose illegal immigration saying is damaging german culture and the party was founded back in the sixty's and has been repeatedly accused of being racist. and in america school has been evacuated in georgia after a gunman with an assault rifle fired shots as a teacher's helped everyone to safety police stormed the building in a rest of the man after a short firefight it was a december of last year that another gunman adam lanza killed twenty six most of them under the age of seven at the sandy hook elementary school sparking then a huge debate on issues of arms control. as we continue to explore the fate of small scale of farmers in garner they've been left to starve been ignored in

neglected by the government it's a documentary that's coming up part two in just. please write the scene. first strike you and i gripping pictures.

on our recorders twitter. and instagram. me and the. like lazy i'm going to go through no other jobs so that i could go and money to buy seeds much wind up dies or any amount of money i have for seeds and you can spend it all books. or pen and school uniforms much my kids need for school.